Like Fire The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

Like Fire The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

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Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawi...

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Main Author: French Smith, Michael (auth)
Other Authors: Schwartz, Theodore (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2021
Series:Monographs in Anthropology
Subjects:
Australasian & Pacific history
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Political activism
Papua New Guinea
Millenarianism
Cargo Cults
religion
Margaret Mead
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